TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Marvin A.
TI  - Afro-Argentine discourse: another dimension of the Black diaspora 
SN  - 0826210422 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PQ7623.B57 L4 1996
U1  - 860.9/896082 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Argentine literature
KW  - Black authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Minority authors
KW  - African influences
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The Afro-Argentine: Another Retrospective View --; Ch. 1; The Romantic Mode in Afro-Argentine Letters --; Ch. 2; Casildo G. Thompson and the Failure of Negritud --; Ch. 3; The Criollista Spirit or the Black Writer as Payador --; Conclusion: Cry for Afro-Argentines
N2  - In Afro-Argentine Discourse, Marvin A. Lewis attempts to write blacks back into the literary history of Argentina by treating in depth, for the first time, the written expression of Argentines of African descent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Because their contributions are overlooked or minimized in most literary histories, it is often assumed that blacks had little or no part in the development of Argentine literature; Through original archival research, Lewis corrects this erroneous assumption by examining texts never before made available to the academic community. Afro-Argentine Discourse investigates a new dimension of the black experience in the Americas and will stir much interest and debate regarding the black presence in Argentina
ER  -